Cessna 175
N6517E is a Cessna 175, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Red Baron LLC, an LLC in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 22, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 175 · all 175s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 175 Skylark family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 56017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor GO-300 SERIES · 175 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A893C3 (octal 52111703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · April 22, 1959
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00792536
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Baron LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 600 N Broad St Ste 5 # 3575
Middletown, DE 19709
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6517E links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 175 Skylark 925 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental GO-300 series 808 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Red Baron LLC 31 aircraft in the fleet
- Middletown, DE 348 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 175 Skylark 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 175 Skylark 73 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 175 Skylark 232 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental GO-300 series 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental GO-300 series 16 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6517E, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Red Baron LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6517E according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N6517E: Accident on September 2, 2004 at De Ridder, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 175 · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data